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Courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. The shape of the pace and the time differential from the lead swimmer to the last swimmer at the 5 km mark is only 14 seconds so this indicates that the first half of the women’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim is slow…and the second half will […]
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Courtesy of NBC Olympics on Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. After a week of large surf and rough water conditions, the water really laid down on Copacabana Beach for fairly tranquil conditions during the women’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. There still remains some gentle ocean swells, but nothing to worry any of the 26 marathon
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Courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. With the pace surprisingly slow in the women’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on Copacabana Beach, the main pack with all 26 competitors has stayed together for the first 45 minutes. Olympic defending champion Éva Risztov of Hungary 15. Xin Xin of China, and France’s Aurélie
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anastasiia Krapivina of Russia was initially in. Then, she was out. Now, she is in the Olympic finals. When Krapivina was replaced by Anna Olasz of Hungary due to her drug suspension, the number of Olympic finalists remained at 25 swimmers. But then FINA and the IOC recently reinstated
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Courtesy of Steele Whowell, Swim 4 Freedom, Wisconsin. “The proceeds from the 8.2-mile (13.2 km) Swim 4 Freedom on Geneva Lake in Wisconsin go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation who do an amazing job providing full college educations to surviving children of Special Operations personnel killed in combat and also provide immediate financial assistance
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim was initially held at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a four-loop rowing basin course. The 2012 London Olympics marathon swim was held in a six-loop course in the Serpentine under tranquil conditions and the 2016 Rio Olympics marathon event will be held in rough
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim was initially held at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a four-loop rowing basin course. The 2012 London Olympics marathon swim was held in a six-loop course in the Serpentine under tranquil conditions and the 2016 Rio Olympics marathon event will be held in rough
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Courtesy of Professor Ricardo Ratto from Copacabana Beach. Almost all the Olympic 10K marathon swimmers are at the venue now. “Things are already set as they will be for tomorrow’s race,” reported Professor Ricardo Ratto. “Several safety boats are escorting the swimmers along the course today.” Due to the large surf that wiped about the
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Naples Island Swim is an annual bay swim held in Long Beach, California
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Melissa Yasmin Berkay of Mills College in Oakland, California described her 12 hour 37 minute butterfly crossing of the Catalina Channel this week. The 25-year-old music and journalism student from Mills College surrounded herself with stalwarts in the sport in her charity swim for homeless. Not only did she
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